As he woke the next morning, Naruto felt well rested and happier than he did for a long time before he came to this odd and wondrous land. Sleeping next to him, with only a short gown on her figure, that barely hid it, slept the ruby witch herself, Theodora the good.

As he looked at her sleeping form, Naruto couldn't help but smile as she had her head in the crook of his neck, a loving smile on her lips as she held him softly, her right arm over his chest. His left arm around her waist as she held his right with her left to her own chest, fingers entwined. Her right leg in-between his own legs.

Rolling his eyes as he smiled at her, Naruto moved his head and laid a soft and affectionate kiss on her forehead, before he felt her bring herself closer to him. "Theodora, we should get up now." Naruto spoke softly in her ear causing her eyes to flutter open.

"Mmm, morning Naruto. How did you sleep?" she asked sleepily as she sat up and stretched, straddling his right leg that was in-between her own, not caring about how she looked to him at the moment, the other night when they slept in the woods at first was more embarrassing to her than right now was.

"Well, aside from the beauty that was with me and the peaceful feel she gave me, I suppose it was good." Naruto said to her, causing a faint blush to rise on her cheeks.

"I have to agree, it was rather good, it would have been better if you slept in less, wearing those pants all the time can't be comfortable for you." She said at first teasingly to him before she gave a sound reason.

"True, but I don't have any other things to wear, and my jacket was torn up remember?" Naruto said causing her to nod.

"What is your plan for today?"

"I was thinking of setting out to find the witch, maybe bring along a lovely guide with me. Just how does one take care of a witch in the first place, like make her not a threat?" Naruto asked her.

"You must break her source of magic. My ring, Evanora's pendant on her necklace, and Glenda's wand. The three sources of magic, one for each of us. If you break it, then we become harmless to those around us. Only those with truly wicked hearts, that are witches, may still be a danger to others, if that is the case, I am sad to say, but you must kill them, for the good of themselves and the people." She told him getting a nod from her love.

"So, did you make any progress with any of the things in the scroll?" Naruto asked as he got the information he wanted.

"Some, there was a neat looking one in there, it made a clone of fire. I started to learn it, but I thought that maybe I should be with you when I do, so that if it goes berserk you can help control it and keep it from harming things." She told him slightly happy to be asked of any progress that she may have made.

"That could be for the best, we don't want any accidents harming the people here. They are good and don't need to be hurt simply by an accident." He told her as he nodded. "If you would like, you can come with me when I leave, that way we can practice the things inside the scroll."

"Oh, I found one that sounded rather nice, it was the first cloning thing in there. It lets the user regain the memory of the clone when it dispels." She told him as she got up and shown it to him, still in her night gown.

"Shadow clone, hmm. Looks rather simple as well." Naruto said as he formed the single hand sign, reading it before he continued further, he took into account what he scroll said, saying to basically pump chakra into it rather than use a tiny amount. Nodding to himself, Naruto let loose his energy before he heard a series of pops and a gasp.

Looking around, he saw that the room was now littered with several dozens of clones, and that Theodora looked on in surprise from the sudden appearance of the multiple Naruto's. "That was fantastic Naruto. You did it on your first try." She said as she flung herself at him, the original, pushing him back into the bed with her sudden weight. His exposed chest getting a full feel of her thinly clad breasts as she pushed them, innocently, into him.

"You guys go train on the control." Naruto said to the clones who simply nodded before they stared at the scroll for several seconds, memorizing the exercises before leaving. A single one popped, transferring the knowledge to the veritable army that was outside the door and all along the hallway, causing him to look in shock as he saw them.

"I think I have an army now." Naruto spoke unsure and slightly taken aback from seeing them.

Theodora not sure what he fully meant, looked outside the window after she got back up to see a mass of orange storm the streets before they all made a line at the walls, steadily making their way up with their energy alone. When one fell, it seemed like another took their place and was better than the previous one. "I think so too." She said as she watched them, feeling Naruto walk up behind her and hug her from behind.

"I noticed something last night and yesterday. Why don't you and your sisters have brooms?"

"What would we do with brooms?" she asked as she tilted her head to look at him.

"Well, the witches I heard of all had brooms for flying."

"Oh, he-he, we can fly without needing a medium Naruto. Silly." She said to him as she giggled understanding what he meant.

"Yes well, if I am silly, your sillier, after all you are the one falling for me." He said as she smiled at him.

"I can't help it, you are way to kind and handsome, let alone you promised to aide me and my land." She told him getting a nod from him.

"I know, I was teasing you." He told her, her smile growing at that.

ZZ

After she got dressed in one of the many outfits that she had gotten for traveling, Theodora stood ready to join Naruto on his small adventure that was supposed to take place. Naruto waited for her at the door having a small headache from the clones dispelling, not all at once but it was still more information than one would expect concerning a single thing.

The clones all dispelled roughly an hour ago after they were training for two hours straight. The clones that fell giving the others more knowledge and being replaced by the head clone, the single clone that stood off to the side and waited for others to fall and dispel. After almost a hundred deaths, the clones finally mastered the practice and were recalled by Naruto as he wasn't sure if there was any water nearby for the next one.

Pulling his cloak on over his torn shirt, Naruto started to walk with Theodora, heading out of the city, before Finley flew to them and kept pace in the air.

ZZ

After walking for a few hours, Naruto and his small group encountered a large plume of black smoke coming from behind a hill. Nodding to the other two, the trio flew over to it, but landed before they reached the small settlement that they saw. Not wanting to be too use to flying, Naruto refrained from it too often only using it when was in a hurry or it felt necessary to cover distance at a fast pace.

What they saw when they entered the china town, shocked the three of them, no matter how prepared they thought that they were when they started this journey, nothing could have prepared them for this. The houses that looked like tea pots and pitchers, all of them were either ruined or had parts missing, not a soul in sight as they walked.

Bending down next to a straw bonnet, Naruto lifted a piece of what he assumed was china from a house, only to cringe as he saw a face as he turned it over. Laying it down gently and paying his respects to the fallen of the town, Naruto looked up with the others when he heard a small cry from within a house several feet away from them.

Going to look, they saw a young girl hiding behind a table and under a set of stairs. As they looked at her, she rose her head only to hide it again as she caught sight of them.

"Hey, we mean you no harm. My name is Naruto; this is Theodora, and Finley." Naruto said as they both waved while he pointed to them. "Can you move?" he asked her only to get a shake of her head.

Coming inside the house and moving the table away from her, they grew sad looks as they saw that her legs had broken off in her hiding. "I'll never walk again." She said sadly to herself before she saw Naruto doing something.

"Give me a second; I think I may have something." Naruto said as he searched the pockets of his pants and cloak. Seconds later he pulled a small glass jar out of his pocket, a bottle of glue that he normally used for small pranks. "This may help you out." Naruto told her.

"What is that, magic?" the small China girl asked him.

"In a way, you could call it that. This is glue; it helps things come back together." He told her as he dabbed the leg on the left with it first and reattached it to her.

"What would the witch gain from attacking your small town?" Theodora asked as Naruto dabbed the other leg.

"We were celebrating. We heard of the arrival of the wizard to Oz and had started a festival." She told them.

"You mean, that your people are dead because… of me?" Naruto asked her as he put her other leg back on her.

"Are you the wizard?"

"In a way, I promised to aid this land, and I shall without a doubt fulfill that promise." Naruto told her with a small smile on his face. "I'm sorry that I couldn't be there for your people little one, but I will make this land safer and not let their deaths be for nothing." He spoke as he helped her up.

"Come on. You can do it." Theodora said as the small China girl seemed unsure of herself. China girl slowly moved her legs, to make sure that they didn't fall off, as she walked over to them. Smiling as she made it before she jumped up and gave a small hug to Naruto who caught her carefully. Theodora smiling as she saw this.

Walking out, China girl on Theodora's shoulder, they heard the cries of the evil baboons, causing Naruto to glare at the sky as it was filled with several of them. "Theodora." Naruto said calmly to her, getting a nod from her as she took the scroll that he held out to her, and Finley before she went back into the house, shocking the China girl and Finley as she left Naruto alone outside. Of course it didn't help that he stood still, not moving an inch either.

The cries got louder as he could now make out how many there were. He counted only seven of them as they flew at high speeds at him. Smirking, the China girl and Finley looked even more shocked as a flamed, making a large V sprouted on his forehead while his gloves changed slightly as well.

Now instead of being red and yellow, with the numerals being silver, they were black, the flames and numerals were white, and they gave off a large amount of heat as flames covered them.

"Come get some." Naruto spoke as he charged the flames into both gloves, the meter in his contacts filling up. Charging them while he stared at the charging baboons Naruto grinned as they were too close to dodge now, "XX- burner." Naruto called out releasing massive gouts of flames at them, searing hot flames burning them before they were vaporized from the shear intensity of the flames.

Climbing back out of the house, Theodora smiled widely at him before she placed a soft kiss on his cheek, happy that he helped the China girl out and protected them from harm. "That was amazing, you really are the wizard." The small girl said to him getting a slight laugh.

"Let's get going." Naruto spoke as the China girl stayed on Theodora's shoulder while they walked back to the crossroads and headed to the dark forest.

Upon arriving at the entrance, a pair of crows started o caw causing them to stop while Naruto raised an eyebrow at them.

"No further, no further, you will die, you will die." The two birds called out making Finley and China girl cringe as Theodora looked nervous, Naruto, on the other hand, looked calmly at the place they were at.

"Did those crows just say…" the China girl started.

"That we were going to die?" Finley finished.

"No, that was just the critics." Naruto commented off handedly to them as a joke.

Getting over their nervous or scared feelings, the small group of four ventured into the forest. As they walked, Naruto's flame shone brightly lighting the path before them clearly. China girl started to comment on things that may be in the forest before she ended with the undead in a solemn voice causing Naruto to look at her oddly.

"How can a child think so morbidly?" he asked before they felt eyes on them. Turning around quickly, they saw nothing. They felt it once more, still nothing. On the third time, they caught a glimpse of a yellow eyeball looking thing.

Turing back around, a set of eyes suddenly appeared out of nowhere directly in front of the four, Naruto in his surprise sent a jet of flames up from the back of his gloves incinerating the plant like thing, though it still freaked them out enough that they started to run shortly after.

As they stopped running, they saw that they were now in front of a cemetery and that a pair of trees not far off from where they were, happened to be bending and parting as a cloaked and hooded figure walked out smoothly.

"It's the witch." Finley said to him.

"Something isn't right here. She doesn't feel evil, or wicked." Naruto said to them as a look of annoyance formed on his face.

"What do you mean? Is Glenda good still?" Theodora asked him.

"She feels just like you, good heart and all, she just seems to have more control of her magic than you or I do." Naruto said to her before he started to walk over to the woman.

As she heard someone approach, the witch sent a beam of what looked like white misty rainbow at them from the tip of her wand. Naruto slapped it off course with his flame covered hand before he took her wand causing her to become defenseless.

Holding the stick gently in his hand, Naruto looked at her. "Are you still going to attack us, Glenda the good?" Naruto asked as he held her wand out to her after a few seconds.

"Who… who are you?" she asked him.

"Sister, it's good to see you again." Theodora said catching the attention of Glenda.

"Theodora, what are you doing here?"

"To sum things up, it turns out that I am the person that the old king spoke of when he passed, Theodora found me, and accidently shot me several times in the chest. Met the middle sister, tried to trick me using bribes of gold and riches. Made everyone believe you are evil while I don't feel it at all from you. You are just like Theodora just more in control, which we are aiming to fix and are actually working on it at the moment." Naruto summed up very briefly what happened over the few days that he had been in Oz.

"You are the wizard that father spoke of? Then we are saved. Evanora is the true wicked witch."

ZZ

Nearly two- three hours later, Glenda suddenly stopped her story even though she was done and started to say something else, as she heard the sound of heavy boot-steps on the ground, with the guards of the emerald city running at them.

"I rather not take out the people if I can help it." Naruto said getting a nod before they started running in the opposite direction.

Stopping briefly, Glenda moved her wand around causing a dense mist to roll in and surround them while it blocked the guards from coming closer. Hearing something different come at them, the ran faster upon seeing a screaming baboon burst out at them, only for it to be scorched by Theodora and Naruto, both of whom accidently sent fire at it as they freaked out.

Before long, the five people now came to a hang off while Naruto stood ready to fight, Glenda undid her cloak letting it fly back before she jumped off in to the clouds below them, Finley and China girl doing the same. Theodora was ready to follow until she saw that Naruto was standing his ground while blasting off fire keeping the baboons away from them.

"Go, I will follow. I promise." Naruto said as he glanced back at her with a slight nod. Nodding to him, she fell backwards before he set a larger jet of flames out at the monkeys, seeing that there was no need for him to keep them back anymore, Naruto took a running jump off the edge before he activated his flames keeping him afloat as they passed over him. Not long after, bubbles started to come out of the clouds with Glenda, Theodora, and China girl in them.

Finley and Naruto both followed after them using their separate modes of flight to glide and keep up with them. As they flew, the group saw many oddly colorful things, even coming across an emerald and ruby flower that bloomed as they passed it.

ZZ

After what seemed like several minutes, in reality several tens of minutes, the group saw a large bubble like wall as they sped towards it.

"So, is that a wall?" Naruto asked casually of them.

"Yes, a magic wall, it keeps all bad things out, and protects my people." Glenda told him.

"So, if, say, I had a demon inside me that was bent on the destruction of the village I came from for their betrayal, would it still let me in?" Naruto asked calmly of her, the hyper flame glowing brighter on his head still forming the v.

"… I ugh, yes, it will." She said, not sounding entirely sure of herself.

Before any more could be said, the four passed through the wall with ease while Naruto started to spin rapidly causing a funnel of wind to twist around him with the speed of his spinning before he too, slammed into to the wall at a much faster speed than they had. The wall slowed him down, though with the help of his spinning, Naruto got through with ease as the wall bounced back and he slowed his spinning to a stop as he caught up with them once more.

ZZ

As they landed, and the bubbles popped, Naruto and the group were greeted by several dozens of people that came to greet them. Waving to the people, Naruto walked beside Theodora, slightly behind Glenda.

As the day passed, Naruto sat at the edge of the town watching as his clones trained out of the corner of his eye. Theodora stood in front of him, practicing with her fire clone that she was remaking to use magic. If had exploded several times by accident, not being able to control it properly at first, though she was making fast progress with it as it barely exploded now.

After they had gotten her clone down to where it didn't explode, she cried out happily before hugging Naruto, who in turn laughed and hugged her back, enjoying the feel of her happiness. They stayed like this for several minutes before moving on to other forms of jutsu that were in the scroll.

"Hey, Theodora, could you tell me how you got the ring that you were?" Naruto asked her curious.

"Well, father gave them to us; he knew that we were witches. Why?"

"Just wondering, plus it would be kind of neat to have some like it for myself. Be able to re-create all the jutsu into a magic form and not worry about it being copied by anyone else." Naruto told her getting a nod, understanding what he meant as she asked him of the people that were in his home, being curious.

"What are you learning from the scroll Naruto?" she asked him as she looked over his shoulder.

"Just a move that I think will benefit us greatly when the time comes." Naruto said as a large grin overcame their faces, reading the jutsu and what it did. "I think that after all this, I will accept being called the wizard truly." Naruto said getting a giggle out of her.